Hecate's Kin

Chapter 23 - Gossip and Torture

3rd Person POV

"Styx," Jason breathed. "They're going to kill each other!" And it looked like they were. What had started with simply shouting insults had quickly escalated: Harry had thrown the first punch, which Percy had easily blocked but it had been taken as a challenge nonetheless. Had the two boys been easily matched, it might've not gone further than punching, but Harry was much weaker than Percy in hand-to-hand combat and had to gain the upper hand the only way he knew how...

Magic.

What had started as words had now become a full blown fight between, arguably, the two most powerful teenagers on the planet.

"I'll get Frank and Leo. Go get the girls." Nico ordered. Jason didn't move, just stayed staring out of the window. "Now!" Nico shouted, jarring Jason out of his daze and sending him flying (quite literally) up the girls staircase.

It was amazing how quickly the mention of a prophecy could get demigods out of bed. Within minutes, everyone was fully dressed and in the common room with their weapons. Jason gave them the quick version of the explanation which Nico had given him concerning the prophecy, before pointing out the fight which was still going on just outside the window.

"Holy Hades!" Leo breathed. "So much for an easy quest. What do we do?"

Nico stood up from the armchair he'd been in and began giving orders before Jason could even form a plan: "Hazel, Frank, you need to go and get Professor Cielo. We need to get him to break what he made. Piper, you stay here and contact your mum. See if she can help in the likely event that Cupid doesn't do as he's told. Leo and Calypso, you two need to take Festus and go to camp. Make Chiron aware of the situation, tell him not to alert the whole camp but just to be ready incase this turns into a bigger fight than just the two outside. Thalia, you do the same for the huntresses and the Romans." Nico looked around at he others. "Everyone got that?" They all nodded and started running off in their separate directions to get what they needed.

" What's left for us to do then?" Jason shrugged.

"We," Nico grimaced "have to go outside and make sure those two don't kill each other."

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"You know," Jason mused as he jumped off a stair case which was just beginning to move. "I don't think Will's ever had a girlfriend, has he?"

"Neither did you two years ago," Nico commented. "But that didn't mean you liked guys instead."

"I guess, but Will's not a bad looking guy, if he was into girls then..."

"Are we really discussing this now!?" Nico yelled, slightly out of breath from trying to keep up with the much taller Jason.

"Seems as good a time as any." Jason started running backwards to face Nico and let him catch up slightly.

"Look, if we all get through this without starting a war and you can find some subtle way to phrase it, I give you full permission to ask Will yourself. As long as you shut up about it now!"

"Okay, okay." Jason laughed, raising his hands in defeat. "But when it turns out he likes you..."

"If." Nico corrected tersely.

"When." Jason grinned. "When it turns out he likes you, I am sending so sending you on a date."

Nico groaned. "The only matchmaking you should be thinking about at the moment is getting Percy and Annabeth back together. If you keep going on about it then I'll tell Drew that you've started shipping campers as well and then she'll try and talk to you constantly and your life will simply be reduced to 'Percabeth' this and 'Frazel' that."